Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years that defy counting the traditional greeting of the Harvard Law School to its new students has been designed not to extend a hearty welcome to its neophytes, but rather to put the fear of God into those rash souls who dared to climb the steps of Langdell Hall and seek therein a legal education. "Gentlemen," the professors in charge of the first classes are reported in effect to have said, "The men who are sitting to the right and left of you today will not be here to graduate with you three years hence." But anyone who attended...
...Constitution was 40 years old voiced sentiments interesting on the Constitution's 150th birthday: "I begin to doubt whether it will be long practicable peaceably to elect a Chief Magistrate possessing the powers which the Constitution confers on the President of the United States. ... I begin to fear that our Constitution is not doomed to be so long lived as its real friends have hoped. What may follow sets conjecture at defiance...
...blacks. . . . We would not condone anything which approaches racial equality." North Carolina's Hoey: "In my State the municipalities accepted State funds and the burden of education gradually shifted to the State. The same thing will happen in the Federal Government." Maine's Barrows: "I most certainly fear control of education by the Federal Government. . . ." Only dissenter was Indiana's Townsend, who cracked back: "The Federal Government certainly never did the State of Indiana any harm when it meddled with roads...
...really know how to make accurate maps of the earth's surface. A black-bordered rectangle bore the legend: "These honored dead were Forteans: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES - LINCOLN STEFFENS." The magazine also announced that astronomers played down a recent eclipse of Venus by the moon for fear that laymen would discover that the universe is not running according to man-made schedule; that Alexander ("Town Crier") Woollcott is an ardent Fortean who gives away dozens of Fort's books to friends; that Booth Tarkington would discuss Fortism in the next issue. No better and no worse than...
Most interesting controversy in Wild Animal World: which animal is most dangerous? Dr. Ditmars is inclined to think some kinds of snakes are most dangerous, but he says it is a matter of familiarity and skill. A herpetologist, for instance, need have little fear of snakes, but if he is not careful a tiger or a gorilla might...